Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-01
THE NEWS.

| AU aQtl-ClON6ldDu paper, Guo OdiAy
World, is to be started at Atlanta, Ga.
The Government deposits in its vari-
Gus National bank repositories aggre~
gate 500, ,254, ,2O4.
| Judge Daniel Goodwin, exJudge of
the Michigan Supreme Court, is dead,
aged ninety years.
Jesse Lane, aged 16, was shot and
killed at Elizabeth, lii, in party OF
boys who were firing revOlvers at ran
dom.
| A stay of proceedings has been grant,
! ed in the case OF Jake Sharp. convicted
of bribing the New York Doodle Alder
men.
A man named Avery and his wife
committed suicide together in New
York. with morphine. Poverty was the
cause.
John Myrick, colored, was lynched in
Henry county, Ala, by one hundred peo-
pie of his own race. He outraged white
woman.
A man using various aliases has been
arrested at Olney, ILL.,, for swindling
hotel keepers by bogus check on the
Vincennes bank.
Gov. Martin, of Kansas, has revoked
his quarantine proclamation against I'LL
nOis cattle, except in SO far as it applies
to Cook county.
John Cartwright, a desperate charac>
ter of Marion county, West Virginia,
was shot dead ion the street in Manning
| ton, that county, by an unknown man.
Mrs. Elizabeth Howard Powers, who
gave so much time and money for the
relief of Union soldiers during the war,
died last week, in Washington, aged "a.
Twenty-Five hundred quarrymen in
the lin,stone quarrles along the Maho
ming River, near Youngstown, have
struck for an advance of two cents per
ton.
The Republican Senatorial Convention
of the joint 18th and 10th districts of
| Ohio nominated for Senators W Don
avin (Sim Donavin's brother and S J
| Davis.
A reunion of the survivors of General
VIM. Walkers Nicaragua expedition
| will be held in st. Louis some time this
autumn. There are about two hundred
living.
The Attorney General of Indiana has
| filed suit against the Central Union Tel
ephone company to collect $4,000 pen
atty for failure to file statements of
earnings since 1882.
Many people are dying of a mysteri
Gus disease in Southern West Virginia
and South western Virginia. 1t is re-
currence Of an epidemic that has visited
that section several times before.
1t is charged that agents or represen-
tatives of the Standard Oil Company
are active throughout the State endeav'
oring to secure control of the nomlna>
tions of candidates to the Legislature.
A westbound emigrant train collided
with an eastbound freight on the B. &
o. Railroad, "a miles east of Wheeling.
Thursday. An engineer and fireman
were killed and number of emigrants
hurt.
The counsel 1or Lindsey Smith, con-
qicted at Nicholasville. KY, of murder
has applied for a new trial, on the
ground that the man whom his client
was convicted of killing has turned up
alive.
Col. G. C. Graves, who was Lieutenant
Colonel of the Second Iowa Cavalry and
Brigiadier General of the Kansas MAJ
tional Guard under Gov. Click, was
burned to death in the destruction of the
police barn at Topeka.
Daniel Miller has been arrested in
Atlanta. He married Mrs. Martha
Waters, widow with five children, and
possessing $4,000 and other property.
living near Newport, Tenn. He got
possession of her money and deserted
her.
The grand jury of Jessamine county
has returned bills of indictments against
ten Democratic officials and politicians
for violations of law at the last election.
They include the Representative-elect,
U s Gauger, U Deputy Collector and
the jailer.
The platform of the Iowa Republi
cans denounce the suppression of the
votes of colored men in the South as a
National wrong; tavors protective
tariff; opposes criminal emigration; de-
nounces the fragrant violation of the
civil service law by the administration
criticises the President for preference
shown for men who fought to destroy
the Union; for his despOtic use of the
veto power, and for the rebel flag epi-
sode; approves the general principles of
the Interstate commerce law; favors
liberal pensions, and the enforcement of
the state prohibitory laws. Gov Larat